{"id":804,"date":"2015-01-14T18:16:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T18:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/charleysandage.com\/?p=804"},"modified":"2025-08-17T03:52:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T03:52:18","slug":"story-songs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/charleysandage.com\/?p=804","title":{"rendered":"Story Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"135\" height=\"181\" src=\"http:\/\/charleysandage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/portrait_02.jpg\" alt=\"Charley Sandage\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-715\" \/>Songwriters try to &#8220;tell the story&#8221; with every lyric, but I love the ones that are more complete tales.  &#8220;Different Music&#8221; isn&#8217;t about anyone specific, but it&#8217;s no less a real story.  &#8220;The Seat&#8221; is contemporary country in style, taking two people in love through a lifetime.   In the traditional &#8220;Loch Tay Boat Song,&#8221;  the characters become real people.  &#8220;Lila,&#8221; from the 2008 &#8220;That Time is Here&#8221; CD, is a story that woke me up one night, ready to be written down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Songwriters try to &#8220;tell the story&#8221; with every lyric, but I love the ones that are more complete tales. &#8220;Different Music&#8221; isn&#8217;t about anyone specific, but it&#8217;s no&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songwriters-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/charleysandage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/charleysandage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/charleysandage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charleysandage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charleysandage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/charleysandage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":812,"href":"https:\/\/charleysandage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/charleysandage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charleysandage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charleysandage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}